From Revolution to Power in Brazil

Kenneth P. Serbin

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From Revolution to Power in Brazil: How Radical Leftists Embraced Capitalism and Struggled with Leadership examines terrorism from a new angle. Kenneth Serbin portrays a generation of Brazilian resistance fighters and militants struggling to rebuild their lives after suffering torture and military defeat by the harsh dictatorship that took control with the support of the United States in 1964, exiting in 1985.

Based on two decades of research and more than three hundred hours of interviews with former members of the revolutionary organization National Liberating Action, Serbin’s is the first book to bring the story of Brazil’s long night of dictatorship into the present. It explores Brazil’s status as an emerging global capitalist giant and its unique contributions and challenges in the social arena.

The book concludes with the rise of ex-militants to positions of power in a capitalist democracy—and how they confronted both old and new challenges posed by Brazilian society. Ultimately, Serbin explores the profound human questions of how to oppose dictatorship, revive politics in the wake of brutal repression, nurture democracy as a value, and command a capitalist system. This book will be of keen interest to business people, journalists, policy analysts, and readers with a general interest in Latin America and international affairs.

Sujets

• Radicalism
• Political Ideologies
• Political Freedom
• HISTORY
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Histoire
• América del Sur
• Military
• South America
• Latin America

Informations

• Publié par: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date de parution: 25 juin 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780268105877
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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FROM REVOLUTION TO POWER IN BRAZIL
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FROM REVOLUTION TO POWER IN BRAZIL
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How Radical Leftists Embraced Capitalism and Struggled with Leadership
KENNETH P. SERBIN
University of Notre Dame Press
Notre Dame, Indiana
Copyright © 2019 by University of Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame Press
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
undpress.nd.edu
All Rights Reserved
Published in the United States of America
Cover images: shutterstock // Front cover images: ( top ) Police in São Paulo detain a man during a street protest in São Paulo, October 1968. Iconographia; ( bottom ) In 1971, President Médici visited the National Steel Factory in Volta Redonda, an area of national security and hotbed of political activism. Iconographia. // Back cover image: Former National Liberating Action militant Paulo de Tarso Vannuchi, Minister of the Special Secretariat for Human Rights (left), with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, August 2006. Photo by Ricardo Stuckert.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Serbin, Ken, author.
Title: From revolution to power in Brazil : how radical leftists embraced capitalism and struggled with leadership / Kenneth P. Serbin.
Description: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2019] | Series: Helen Kellogg Institute series on democracy and development | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2019017145 (print) | LCCN 2019020350 (ebook) | ISBN 9780268105884 (pdf) | ISBN 9780268105877 (epub) | ISBN 9780268105853 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Brazil—Politics and government—1964–1985. | Brazil—Politics and government—1985-2002. | Aðcäao Libertadora Nacional (Organization : Brazil)—History. | Revolutionaries—Brazil—History—20th century. | Military government—Brazil—History—20th century. | Terrorism—Brazil—History—20th century. | Capitalism—Brazil—History—20th century. | Brazil—Economic conditions—1985-
Classification: LCC F2538.25 (ebook) | LCC F2538.25.S465 2019 (print) | DDC 981.06—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019017145
∞ This book is printed on acid-free paper .
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For my parents, whose souls are at rest
For the Huntington’s disease community
For Regina and Bianca
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Key Historical Figures
Abbreviations and Glossary
Timeline of Important Events
Map of Brazil
Prologue
PART I
R EVOLUTION AND R EPRESSION
ONE The Surprise of the Century
TWO The Wrath of the Dictators
THREE Decapitating the Revolutionary Leadership
FOUR The Guerrilla’s Lamentation
FIVE The Resistance Becomes Nonviolent
PART II
R ESURGENCE
SIX Political Prisoners
SEVEN Moderation in Exile

EIGHT Power to the People, Brazilian-Style
NINE The Entrepreneurs
PART III
R ULE
TEN From Bullets to Ballots
ELEVEN A Proletarian versus a Free-Marketer for President
TWELVE Revolutionaries in Suits and Ties
THIRTEEN The “American Dream” in Power
FOURTEEN An Ex-Revolutionary at the Helm Encounters Turbulence and Hostility
FIFTEEN Brazil Five Decades after the Kidnapping
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Figure 1. Police in São Paulo detain a man during a street protest in São Paulo, October 1968. Iconographia.
Figure 2. A police photo of Manoel Cyrillo de Oliveira Netto. Manoel Cyrillo de Oliveira Netto collection.
Figure 3. Ambassador Charles Burke Elbrick shortly after his release on September 7, 1969. Iconographia.
Figure 4. Clockwise, from upper left: the author with Manoel in 2009 at the former ambassadorial residence in Rio (a), at the corner of Elbrick’s capture (b), and at the safe house (c). In the final photo, Manoel at the former embassy building (d). Marcelo Ulisses Machado.
Figure 5. Aloysio Nunes Ferreira Filho, front and center, at the Universidade de São Paulo law school in the 1960s. Aloysio Nunes Ferreira Filho collection.
Figure 6. Typical in dictatorial Brazil, this “Wanted: Murderous Terrorists” sign included a picture of Aloysio, second row, third from left. Aloysio Nunes Ferreira Filho collection.
Figure 7. A Rio newspaper article reporting the military tribunal convictions of the Elbrick kidnappers. In the photo, from left to right: Paulo de Tarso Venceslau, Antônio de Freitas Silva, Cláudio Tôrres da Silva, and Manoel. Edileuza Pimenta de Lima collection.
Figure 8. Carlos Eugênio Sarmento Coêlho da Paz. Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo.
Figure 9. Adriano Diogo, far left, at a street protest in São Paulo, July 1968. Iconographia.
Figure 10. Paulo de Tarso Vannuchi’s mug shot, 1976. Paulo de Tarso Vannuchi collection.

Figure 11. Paulo with father, Ivo, sister Maria Lúcia, and Neci (in swimsuit), sister of another political prisoner, at the Barro Branco political prison, late 1975/early 1976. Paulo de Tarso Vannuchi collection.
Figure 12. Arlete Diogo, 1973. Arlete Diogo collection.
Figure 13. A police photo of Arlete Diogo, 1973. Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo.
Figure 14. The Sé Cathedral. Kenneth P. Serbin.
Figure 15. Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns and other clergy at the memorial Mass for Alexandre Vannucchi Leme, São Paulo, March 30, 1973. Estadão Conteúdo.
Figure 16. A police photo of Adriano. Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo.
Figure 17. Political prisoners at the Barro Branco political prison, circa 1975. From left to right, standing: Ariston Lucena, Gilberto Belloque, Paulo Vannuchi, José Genoíno, and Manoel Cyrillo de Oliveira Netto; seated: Oséas Duarte, Aton Fon Filho, Reinaldo Morano Filho, Celso Horta, and Hamilton Pereira (Pedro Tierra). Paulo de Tarso Vannuchi collection.
Figure 18. Colombo and Jessie Jane Vieira de Souza, with daughter Leta, at the Bangu prison complex, 1977. Centro de Documentação e Memória, Universidade Estadual Paulista.
Figure 19. Celebrating Colombo and Jessie’s release from prison: from left to right, Colombo; Jessie’s mother, Leta de Souza Alves; Colombo’s sister, Iná Meireles de Souza; Jessie; and Colombo’s mother, Inah Meirelles de Souza, 1979. Leta had just arrived from exile in Sweden. Colombo and Jessie Jane Vieira de Souza collection.
Figure 20. Márcio Araújo de Lacerda in the uniform of the army reserves. Márcio Araújo de Lacerda collection.
Figure 21. A police photo of Márcio. Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo.
Figure 22. A Construtel worker in the early 1980s in the city of Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais. Márcio Araújo de Lacerda collection.
Figure 23. Márcio (center) explains Batik technology to Vice President Aureliano Chaves, with, at far left, Congressman Paulino Cícero and business leader Stefan Salej looking on at a technology fair, circa 1982–83. At the far right is Paulo Slander, a Telemig executive. The man at Márcio’s immediate right is unidentified. Márcio Araújo de Lacerda collection.
Figure 24. The Batik factory floor in the late 198